I feel like this becomes kind of unacceptable as soon as you take on your first developer employee. 10K LOC changes from the CTO is fine when it's only the CTO working on the project.
Hell, for my hobby projects, I try to keep individual commits under 50-100 lines of code.
Templates and templating languages are still a thing. Source generators are a thing. Languages that support macros exist. Metaprogramming is always an option. Systems that write systems…
If these AIs are so smart, why the giant LOCs?
Sure, it’s cheaper today than yesterday to write out boilerplate, but programming is about eliminating boilerplate and using more powerful abstractions. It’s easy to save time doing lots of repetitive nonsense, stopping the nonsense should be the point.
Lol I worked at a startup where the CTO did this. The problem was that it was pure spaghetti code. It was so bad it kept me up at night, thinking about how to fix things. I left within 30 days
I worked with a “CTO” who did that before LLMs - one of the worst jobs I have had in the last 10 years. I spent at least 50% of my time putting out fires or refactoring his garbage code
Recently went through this. Not exactly an independent researcher, but my current field (ML) is different from my educational field (physics), so needed to get someone to endorse me so I could upload a paper to cs.CV
I asked someone who organised a workshop I had spoken at.
If you haven't met anyone in the field, then look at the papers you cite, see if any of the authors of those papers can endorse you (you can see it at the bottom of a paper's ArXiv abstract page), and ask them.
Thanks a lot for this hint, I'll definitely look into it. Seems to be the only option. I was able to "publish" it to SSRN [1] but not sure it has the credibility I'm looking for.
ArXiv doesn't give your paper any credibility either.
If you want credibility, submit it to a journal.
Journals don't require that the paper be on ArXiv.
The reason I submitted our paper to ArXiv was that it was accepted at a workshop that was peer-reviewed, but non-archival, so just wanted to be able to point people at something a little easier to reference than the workshop github page.
On your first point: It doesn't read like that to me. It seems like they built one of their key products (Claude Code) on top of Bun, and want to have a say in it's development.
I write about whatever I find interesting, averaging around 4-5 posts a year.
Quarto page, so mostly write in Jupyter notebooks or markdown files.
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